Things are a bit out of Wu Haogu's expectations!

Gao Yu, who was supposed to manage the troops for Zhao Ji, has now become a pimp in front of the emperor, and the matter of leading the troops to fight is going to be handed over to the big banker Pan Xiao'an...... I don't know if Pan Xiao'an will turn the forbidden army into a yamen for collecting and lending usury?

And Pan Xiao'an is not in Kaifeng Mansion now! He's in Yan'an (Yanzhou), and he doesn't know when he'll be able to return, and when he comes back, the Military Academy Division should almost be dispersed.

The 500 or so students of the Military Science Department were selected by Zhang Kai and Lu Huiqing strictly. In particular, among the 350 young military ministers selected from the Western Army, all of them have real skills, have been on the battlefield, killed Western thieves, and are young "generals". That is, Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu, Zhang Qi, and Lu Huiqing, who know how to use soldiers, can force the Western Army to take out these "treasures".

If you let Pan Xiao'an go, no one will bird you! What kind of soldier do you train as a banker? Got it? Have you ever seen someone killed?

So once these 500 people dispersed, there was no possibility of gathering again. At least Wu Haogu and Pan Xiao'an have no choice.

Although the two old men Murong and Zhao Zhongge are still there, they can still train some young generals who command the infantry for Wu Haogu. The kind of officer who commanded pikemen, archers, sword and shield bearers and crossbowmen was not difficult to train. As long as the Six Arts Academy can be run, the students who graduated from the academy can be trained for two or three years, and they can almost be used. But the cavalry they couldn't do much.

Wu Haogu has practiced equestrianism a lot these days, but he still can't master the technique of shooting a bow and arrow on the back of a running horse.

And the four "little slaves of Wu Haogu" can stand on the back of a running horse and shoot arrows! You can really juggle it...... With such a technology, even Lin Chong and Ximen Qing can't!

According to Murong Wangwu and Zhao Zhongge, a truly excellent cavalry still depends on cultivation. Because cavalry is not only marching and fighting on horseback, but also a series of problems such as horse breeding, horse soma, horse training, and so on. A master like Wu Haogu, who is not very familiar with horses, has almost reached the point of riding and charging on horseback, and he can only barely do it by riding and shooting. And it is almost impossible to be proficient in soma, horse breeding, and horse taming.

And the armored cavalry in the cavalry, that is, the heavy cavalry in armor and charging, is actually a team - not a soldier and a horse, but a regular soldier with an auxiliary soldier, and then one or two war horses, a walking horse and a pack horse. Just like the knights of the Europeans, a knight had to be accompanied by a large retinue to fight.

Such a team should preferably come from a family, father, son, brother, master and servant, etc., so that they can trust each other and have enough tacit understanding.

In addition, this family system of cavalry is also conducive to the replenishment of horses and knights - horses, horses and pack horses should preferably be privately owned, raised and bred by them, and the armor and weapons of men and horses are also maintained and purchased by themselves. And the knights themselves also have fathers, sons and brothers to inherit, the old ones die in battle, and the younger ones can be replaced, so as to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In other words, the really useful heavy cavalry now should be based on "home" rather than on an individual basis. The heavy cavalry of later Europeans with no armor or only cuirass was actually a product of the age of firearms, and the war horses at that time were not the same as those of the Middle Ages, they were "monsters" that had been continuously improved and cultivated over hundreds of years, and they were extremely fast and did not give the opponent too many opportunities to fire (archery).

But in today's Song Dynasty, it is impossible for Wu Haogu to build the kind of artillery that was only equipped in the 18th and 19th centuries (even if it can make artillery, it cannot be compared with what was hundreds of years later), nor can it raise thoroughbred horses that can gallop at high speeds.

Moreover, no one, including Wu Haogu, knows how modern cavalry is trained? That kind of scientific training method was also summed up by Europeans on the basis of the use of feudal cavalry from generation to generation.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, Wu Haogu felt that the cavalry route in the future could only honestly follow the road of feudalism.

After doing a good job in horse breeding, forging the Qingtang Qizi armor, and cultivating two or three thousand cavalry families, there will naturally be elite heavy cavalry.

Now the horse breed is already a bit eyebrow-raising, and Qingtang Qizijia is not very difficult to deal with - Wu Haogu knows that the problem lies in ore and coal ironmaking, and with a direction, the rest is nothing more than spending money.

And the two or three thousand cavalry houses are not very easy to make. The Haizhou warriors, the Yanggu Ximen family, and the Murong family who moved south, and possibly the Liao magnates and corrupt officials who took refuge in Jiehe Shang City, these are the sources of the cavalry family. The little slaves who were "bought" by Wu Haogu could also take the route of "Mamluk". But Wu Haogu is not sure how much he can make up, and he can't rely too much on the Khitans and divination people...... Otherwise, it would be bad to create a Song Dynasty version of the Anshi Rebellion.

Therefore, Wu Haogu had already noticed the hundreds of people in the Military Science Division...... That's hundreds! These people are all children of the clan, and they can raise their own children. If they can have a manor in Cangzhou - 50 acres and 100 acres are not enough, at least a thousand acres - they will become hundreds of knight families or warrior families in the future. At least in the next few decades (feudal, it will inevitably decay after a long time), they can provide heavy cavalry for the Great Song Dynasty with quality and quantity.

"Brother Gao," Wu Haogu knew that if he wanted to take down those "samurai" in the Military Academy, he had to pull Gao Yu, the "royal pimp", to work together, so he considered the words and said with a smile, "You and I are both confidants of the official family, so naturally we should consider the future cause of the official family." ”

When he spoke, Chunlan had already ordered the Yunwu fragrant tea and poured one for Gao Yu and Wu Haogu. After taking the teacup, Wu Haogu took a sip, and then said: "We are not fighting for the hundreds of students of the Military Academy Department for our own family, but for those students for the official family!" ”

"Fight for the official's family?"

Gao Yu shook his head in his heart when he heard this, what does this matter to his family? is not a good man who is famous outside the Donghua Gate, but he is just a lucky villain...... The villain must keep the villain's duty!

"The Military Science Department can't be saved," Gao Yu shook his head and said, "Although Zeng Bu and An Tao want to use the Military Science Department to train young generals to rectify the Hebei Forbidden Army...... But this matter violated the taboo of being in charge of the army, and the official family was not as easy to be deceived as the first emperor. Those two still haven't seen this clearly, and I won't be able to see them both go away for long. Da Lang, you have to prepare real estate for them in Haizhou. ”

Gao Yu and Zhao Ji have been together much longer than Wu Haogu and Zhao Ji have been together, so they naturally know how "sage" Zhao Ji is. The previous official Zhao Xu was willing to give power to the minister, but now this official is not in this way, he is not as generous as Zhao Xu......

Gao Yu said again: "And the generals of Kaifeng Mansion, none of them dare to take over the stall of the Military Academy, and you also know the family law of my dynasty." ”

"Does the official family want to recover Yanyun?" Wu Haogu asked.

Gao Yu took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "I don't want to think about that official about this?" What use can you imagine? ”

It's useless for others to think about it, but it's useful for Zhao Ji to think about it...... Because Da Liao himself is going to kneel! And even if Zhao Ji doesn't want Yanyun, the Jurchens still want to Kaifeng Mansion when the time comes!

"Yan Yun is thinking, soldiers can't be trained, so what is the official family's plan?"

Gao Yu smiled: "It's not the idea of fighting the Western Army?" 200,000 Western troops...... Hehe! ”

What does "huh" mean? If the new army is no longer training, will the Western Army still toss in the direction of falling apart?

When Wu Haogu was savoring it, the voice of the female envoy of the Gao family sounded outside the door: "Master, the wine and food are ready, can you serve them?" ”

Gao Yu glanced at Wu Haogu and said with a grin: "Da Lang, I have prepared authentic Kaifeng dishes for you, and we will talk while eating...... Okay, let's just get down to business! ”

"What's the matter?"

"One is Qionglin Palace, and the other is Liu Niangzi."

"Mrs. Liu?" Wu Haogu was stunned, "Who's from?" ”

Gao Yu said: "It is the daughter of a liquor shop named Liu Jia next to Wazi in the north of the state, who is twenty-eight years old and has a bright appearance...... Yang Daguan saw it when he went out of the palace to do business. ”

"Sixteen?" Wu Haogu was stunned for a moment, "Now the official family likes the young?" ”

Chunlan on the side interjected: "Yes! How else did the slave get sent out of the palace? ”

Gao Yu smiled and said: "Da Lang, how about going to paint a sketch with me tomorrow morning, and then entering the palace in the afternoon to dedicate it to the official family?" ”

"Sure enough, it's the right thing!" Wu Haogu nodded, "Okay, I'll go early tomorrow morning." ”

"That's right!" Gao Yu thought for a while, and then said, "There is also Qionglin Palace...... Last time, you said that you were going to demolish Dutingyi and sell land to make money, how to do this? I can't help it! ”

"I have a way, I have a way, this thing is easy to do." Wu Haogu replied again and again, "Wouldn't it be okay for the Liao envoy to complain that the pavilion is dilapidated and haunted?" ”

"Let the Liao envoy ......" Gao Yu rolled his eyelids, "Can they listen to you?" ”

"No," Wu Haogu said seriously, "but I have money. ”

"Yes, yes, it's easy to do things with money."

"And the Li Jie, who will be the prisoner, has to let him take his love and come out to be an official, otherwise who will go to build the Qionglin Palace?"

"This ...... It's not easy to do, and his younger brother also wants to win the love, so he gave Yushi a harsh criticism. ”

"If it's not easy to do, you have to do it! Anyone can be his brother's ruler, but who can be his prisoner? And his father, Li Nanshan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is eighty-one years old, and he will die in two years, so he will have to keep filial piety for another three years? ”

"That's right, we'll talk to the official family about it tomorrow."

Wu Haogu nodded, "But you have to help me with the affairs of the Military Academy, even if you can't keep the Military Academy, those students also have to be kept by the officials." ”

"Those students?" Gao Yu's brows were furrowed, wouldn't those students just be sent back to Shaanxi...... Wu Hao Gu is also eventful! Can't you just be a good lucky villain?

"Okay, that's it," Gao Yu sighed, "Let me think of a way......"